Sentences with phrase «other blood vessels at»

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One detective was cardiologist Peter Libby at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, who determined that various molecules recruit macrophages and other immune cells to blood vessels.

The platform is being tested at SickKids in a research environment to develop technologies related to minimally invasive automated anastomosis — the union of tubular structures such as blood vessels to each other or to surfaces.

A recent study by researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine has shown that a protein inhibitor drug prevents these blockages, and could be a new therapeutic approach to prevent heart attack, stroke and other diseases caused by blocked blood vessels.

One drug attacks cancer cells; the other inhibits cancer cell formation and the growth of blood vessels at tumor sites.

Because growing new blood vessels is such a critical part of bone repair, a team led by molecular endocrinologist Geert Carmeliet of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium took a closer look at a protein that encourages blood vessel renewal in other injured tissues.

A new mechanism that regulates the way blood vessels grow and connect to each other has been discovered by an international team of researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.

They are missing blood vessels, immune cells and functional connections to other areas of the nervous system,» Jürgen Knoblich, a molecular biologist at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna who was not involved in the study, tells The Scientist by email.

We found that it is very selective and potent at stopping the growth of blood vessel cells without having negative effects on the growth of other cell types from the eye and elsewhere in the body.

Long used to rebuild the immune systems of cancer patients, scientists discovered that they also have the capacity to grow into heart muscle, blood vessels and other tissues — at least under certain laboratory conditions.

Patients who have had bypass surgery or other major heart surgery should wait at least six to eight weeks, the authors say, although sex is generally safe several days after minimally invasive surgery to clear blocked blood vessels.

While we sleep, our body is hard at work performing repairs on the heart, blood vessels, brain and other tissues that help keep chronic disease at bay.

Let's start by looking at diseases of the heart muscle, and then move to diseases affecting the other main parts of the heart: valves, blood vessels and the electrical conduction system.

She explores the relationship between internal and external, how individuals are linked to the tissues and blood vessels of other organisms, and in so doing, she suggests relationships with the universe at large.